Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi - An answer to today's urgent need

Who or what is Ramana? Ramana is the embodiment of Self-knowledge, the epitome of Peace and Love. He is the messenger of Natural Happiness.

To the modern day individual swirled around by the burning winds of hectic ambition and stressful loneliness, Ramana rises as the mighty oasis of absolute freedom and the fullness of Absolute Consciousness. Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, hailed by Carl Jung as the ‘whitest spot on a white space’, is the essence of Indian Heritage encapsulated as a befitting medicine for the malady of the modern man.

Radiating the energy and silence of the Self from his eyes, the natural comfort of belonging in his gentle smile and the utter simplicity of the ultimate truth in his entire body, clad only in white loin cloth, Ramana beckons every one who is haunted by any form of suffering into his universal embrace, throwing open to them the secret medicine of the Magic Mountain, the Hill of Knowledge, Arunachala. Born on December 30, 1879 at Tiruchuzhi in Tamilnadu to Sundaram Iyer and Azhagammal, who were pillars of Dharma, goodness and righteousness, Venkataraman, as Ramana was named, enacted the drama of death as a boy of 16 in Madurai, in the temple town of Goddess Meenakshi. Facing and conquering death on the 17th of July 1896, he was born anew in the firm knowledge that he is in truth the deathless current, the force that includes and transcends the body.

He became an enlightened sage of steady wisdom, a ‘sahaja nishta’. Arriving at Arunachala on the 1st of September 1896, he remained there for the 54 years of spiritual ministration, unparalleled in spiritual history, including in his ambit not only every human without distinctions of any kind but also every manner of living being.

His presence is available at all times now as then most potently at his Samadhi shrine at Sri Ramanasramam, Tiruvannamalai, and at every place where his teachings are practiced and his life meditated upon.